Reloading Bench...What are you using?

[pitandkahr]

Well, I decided to try my hand at carpentry on the hottest day in quite awhile http://img.***********/forums/images/smilies/icon_evil.gifhttp://img.***********/forums/images/smilies/icon_evil.gif . I also suck at woodworking so I was prepared to be screwing something up http://img.***********/forums/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif. I had a bunch of lumber laying around and went to Lowes to grab some 2 x 4's and wood screws. Here is the end result after 4 hours and multiple breaks and breaking the kids up from fighting http://img.***********/forums/images/smilies/icon_evil.gif . I'm on kid duty this weekend too...Well, here it is it's 2x4x3 and many mistakes (need to put something under one of the back legs to stability)...Now, I just need to get my Hornady stuff put on it, but it's time for a cold one, so that will have to wait!!! What are you using, if you don't mind my asking?

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[OldLincoln]

Mine is a portable bench consisting of a 2X8 18" long that clamps to a desk. I holds the press and powder measure while the scale sits on the desk. My press is a single stage RCBS. It's sets up and breaks down in under 5 minutes and stores in a closet.

[ez9]

Reloads for kahr 380&9mm. .355 TMJ's (1000 @ 74$)are working great. Also have the cheap bench mount lee press 24$...The LEE ergo primer has worked great. I have free brass.


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[alijutt8]

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[ivans]

Here is mine. Made of slavaged 2" square steel tubing, integrated a mount for the tool box. The steel enclosures on the wall store supplies and completed rounds.

Actually kind of a funny consequence of building this bench; after I put it in my basement I decided the basement was to junky to enjoy spending any time in. So I ended up totaly remodeling the basement - new HVAC and controls for the baement, plumbing, electrical, alrarm system redone.

I built a dedicated reloading/craft room, a home theater room and a dedicated closet for the gun safe. All told I figure this bench cost me about $8000 - $10,000 and three months of my life :) And I have not had a chance to load my first round yet either :confused:

http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/manwithtools/Reloading%20Bench/IMAG0146.jpg

[Bawanna]

Very nice. Expensive collateral damage but has to be nice and well worth your efforts and pay checks. Why does it always have to be about money.

it's only money, hope that doesn't sound like I got much, that would be more than a little white lie.

[muggsy]

A friend of mine made his reloading bench from an office desk that he bought for a song from a school that was being torn down in our area. I think that he paid $10 for it. It's made of steel and it has 4 lockable drawers. Very solid. The top measures about 4' X 5'.

[Goldstar225]

I've loaded on everything from a GI foot locker to a heavy as heck 6'X3' bench made of 2X6's and 4X4's. For the last ten years I've been using a cabinet/bench a woodworking buddy made for me. Measuring 36"X18" it holds the single stage Bonanza press that I've used for 30 years along with my RCBS uniflow and Bonanza scale. I has just enough surface area to load without being cramped and adequate storage for the supplies and components for the six calibers I load for.

[dkmatthews]

I'm using a 5 foot Craftsman workbench with a 1-1/2" thick MDF top. It also has the lighted back panel with metal peg board for tool holders.

[SmokingGun]

I made a heavy wood top to clamp into my old B&D Workmate. Works well for me and is portable.

[yqtszhj]

Reloads for kahr 380&9mm. .355 TMJ's (1000 @ 74$)are working great. Also have the cheap bench mount lee press 24$...The LEE ergo primer has worked great. I have free brass.


http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k511/putt2012/af38ff51.jpg

I think I like the looks of this one. Appears to be a minimalist setup which would fit my needs really good.

[686ppp]

I used a solid core door that was laying around at work with 4x4 legs bolted to the wall. My press is mounted to 3 inch angle iron that I put in a vice when I get time to reload.

[Terry A]

My bench is an old solid wood door out of a school remodel anchored to the floor with hilties, it dosent move!!

[Bawanna]

That's a bingo right there. Not moving to me is the most important factor. I'm gonna go out and take some pics in a bit. Kind of damp around here this morning so I'll work on some inside stuff.

[Bawanna]

Here's my set up. Since my bench is a combination catch all, work wood, wrench on guns, fix stuff, reload and whatever else needs to happen bench it usually looks a little cluttered. I know where everything is though so don't move anything.
This is my Rock Chucker. I used a prefab counter top, has a molded in lip on the front which is sometimes nice and sometimes a pain. It's like particle board with a laminate. I took some plated steel and ran it front to back and then some square tubing to build a riser to get the press up higher. Did this on the LockNLoad too, works pretty well.
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This is the square tubing leg mounted under each press so it holds down as well as up.
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The LockNLoad Hornday mounted pretty much the same.
http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n538/hopke5/DSCN3132.jpg

The little painter tape flag attached to the rod in the primer tube. Helps me notice when I'm getting low on primers.
http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n538/hopke5/DSCN3129.jpg

Not a great picture but this is a dental mirror I zip tied to the press frame. Set so I can glance and see powder or lack there of prior to the seating station. Works really good.
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[FireMoose]

Saw the desk at Goodwill and couldn't pass it up. The stand is mounted to Berry's prototype reloading stand.

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[TheTman]

I have an old L shaped desk type thing, with about an office desk sized workspace, and shelves all the way above, and then below the short part of the L. Has plenty of room to store everything. My brother got a few of them when some business closed.

[mr surveyor]

Reloads for kahr 380&9mm. .355 TMJ's (1000 @ 74$)are working great. Also have the cheap bench mount lee press 24$...The LEE ergo primer has worked great. I have free brass.


http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k511/putt2012/af38ff51.jpg



that has become my favorite setup (the Lee Hand Press). I can easily keep myself supplied in .357 and .44 mag rounds. Everything fits into a single legal sized cardboard file box in my office. Leaving the dies pre-set in the quick lock bushings makes it a breeze to work with. I'd love to have enough space to dedicate a room to nothing but reloading, and add several presses for different applications, but I'm so hooked on the simplicity and ease of use of the hand press, I don't "need" a real bench. As long as I can reach the brass with my free hand, I can kick back in a recliner and resize/decap brass, change dies and run 'em through the expander die, and be ready to prime, powder and set bullets.

[TonyT]

That is one attractive and solid reloading bench. When we remodelled the kitchen I moved a grpoup of the old base cabinets to my basement workshop along with the old countertop. I have my preses attached to 3/4 inch plywood and clamp them on to the ebnch when I use them.

[garyb]

Made this to match existing furniture in bedroom. Made out of 2X6's and 4X4 post for legs. Fitted to existing space. Small bench, but works fine.

[dkmatthews]

Made this to match existing furniture in bedroom. Made out of 2X6's and 4X4 post for legs. Fitted to existing space. Small bench, but works fine.

Handsome work, Gary!

[garyb]

Thanks. It is a nice heavy solid bench, which is the way to go. I had to make an angled top so the closet door could be opened.